Director:
Prof. Maxwell Chertok (UC Davis) is currently serving as the HEPCAT Director.
- Responsible for overall financial solvency of HEPCAT and periodic reports to the DOE;
- Nominate new members of PCC and/or DAC as necessary, to be ratified by the EC;
- Interact with the External Advisory Board (EAB) as needed.
Executive Committee (EC):
The Executive Committee will serve as the main governing body of HEPCAT. Duties:
- Define the procedure for selection of fellows;
- Work with the TACC to ensure equitable award of fellowships;
- Select the fellows based on the established procedure;
- Oversight of the PCC, DAC, TACC;
- Determine the location of annual summer school and meeting.
The current EC members:
- Andrew Lankford (UCI, Chair)
- Michalis Bachtis (UCLA)
- Barry Barish (UCR)
- Erik Brubaker (SNL)
- Steven Dazeley (LLNL)
- Bethany Goldblum (UCB)
- Sowjanya Gollapinni (LANL)
- Kent Irwin (Stanford)
- Hugh Lippincott (UCSB)
- Aaron Manalaysay (LBNL)
- Harvey B. Newman (Caltech)
- Kaixuan Ni (UCSD)
- Jason Nielsen (UCSC)
- Tom Shutt (SLAC)
- Maxwell Chertok (UCD, ex-officio)
- John Conway (UCD, ex-officio, TACC)
- Carl Grace (LBNL, ex-officio, DAC)
- Lauren Tompkins (Stanford, ex-officio, Program Coordination Committee)
- Mani Tripathi (UCD, ex-officio)
Program Coordination Committee (PCC):
Chair: Lauren Tompkins (Stanford)
Duties:
- Organize the monthly topical seminar by coordinating the rotation of the speakers through the topical groups
- With the assistance of the Topical Group Coordinators and host consortium, organize the annual meeting as described below;
- Coordinate HEPCAT-related courses at individual institutions and explore cross- registration.
- maintain a database of HEPCAT grads
- Coordinate quarterly professional development seminars for the fellows
- Organize an annual mentoring workshop for program mentors.
DEI/Outreach and Assessment Committee (DAC):
Chair: Carl Grace (LBNL)
Members: Gianpaolo P. Carosi (LLNL), Daniel Whiteson (UCI), Maria Spiropulu (Cal Tech), Maria Elena Monzani (SLAC), Emilija Pantic (UCD), Bruce Schumm (UCSC)
Duties:
- Ensure HEPCAT Fellow recruitment is inclusive and effective at recruiting URM students;
- Report on demographic makeup of the HEPCAT fellows to the EC as required;
- Track the performance of HEPCAT students to ensure satisfactory academic performance;
- Provide annual self-assessment regarding HEPCAT goals and performance;
- Develop relationships with minority serving institutions (MSI) in order to recruit under-represented minority (URM) students into HEPCAT;
- Organize the fellows mentoring program and round-table discussions.
Topical Area Coordination Committee (TACC):
Chair: John Conway (UCD)
Members (topical group leaders):
- Radiation Hardness (John Conway, jsconway@ucdavis.edu)
- Noble Liquid Detectors (Jingke Xu, xu12@llnl.gov)
- UV/VUV Photosensors (Ren-yuan Zhu, zhu@hep.caltech.edu)
- Quantum Devices (Kent Irwin, irwin@stanford.edu)
- Optical Scintillators/Crystals (Bethany Goldblum, bethany@nuc.berkeley.edu)
- Silicon Detectors (Jason Nielsen, jnielsen@ucsc.edu)
- AI/ML for Detectors (Javier Duarte, jduarte@physics.ucsd.edu)
- Electronics/DAQ (Anyes Taffard, ataffard@uci.edu)
Duties:
- Organize one HEPCAT web-based seminar every four months in coordination with the PC;
- Organize the topical session at the annual meeting;
- Annually nominate one student and one alternate for a fellowship. It is expected that each topical group will get one student/year for four years
- Provide a brief annual report on the progress made by fellows to the EC.
